Nancy H. Wood Library Blog

After her mother’s death, 12 year old Molly learns that her father is a basketball star for the Boston Celtics. She’s not so sure that he’s the father she imagined him to be.

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an 8 year old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

A really creative idea about how we get our dreams – and our nightmares. Lois Lowry has done it again!

Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.

If you like historical fiction, you’ll like this one. Read Paterson’s Lyddie to get another look at child labor in the early 1900’s.

Two sisters, aged 10 and 12, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, MA, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.

Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World.

Eleven-year old Felix becomes a batboy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.

Mrs. Hardy writes: If you like baseball you will love this book! The dog in the story is super!

In her Bangladesh village, 10 year old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy – or disguise herself as one.

Mrs. Hardy writes: This makes me think of The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, 8 year old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

If you love this one, you have to read the two sequels! They make you think of Ramona and Junie B.!

When ten-year old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.

Since the death of his mother, Tobin’s family and school life has been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.